160th Anniversary of the United States Secret Service, 2025

What Proclamation 2025-12731 says

Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 128 (Tuesday, July 8, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 8, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 30195-30196] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-12731] [[Page 30193]] Vol. 90 Tuesday, No. 128 July 8, 2025 Part II The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Proclamation 10955--160th Anniversary of the United States Secret Service, 2025 Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 128 / Tuesday, July 8, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 30195]] Proclamation 10955 of July 2, 2025 160th Anniversary of the United States Secret Service, 2025 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation authorizing the creation of the United States Secret Service, the very same day an assassin's bullet tragically took his life. Ironically, the agency he established likely could not have saved him. Its original purpose was not protection, but preservation, tasked with ending the widespread counterfeiting that threatened to destabilize the post-Civil War economy. Less than 3 months later, on July 5, 1865, the Secret Service officially began...

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